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SNAP in MN: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
✓ Verified from primary sources · 2026-08-11 · every state we cover
- What it's called
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
- Who runs it
- Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF). Administered by county/local offices, so office practice can vary; state policy is the baseline.
- Where to apply
- MNbenefits
- How this page stays honest
- Cross-check: every claim traced to a specific Combined Manual section body (with its own issue-date stamp, visible directly in the extracted text) rather than a secondary paraphrase. One major finding: a widely-repeated secondary-source claim that Minnesota bans SNAP recipients with 2 failed drug tests for life is FLATLY CONTRADICTED by the Combined Manual's own current text (0011.27.03, issue date 11/2024) — Minnesota ended its drug-felony disqualification for SNAP as of 8/1/2023, made post-conviction drug testing OPTIONAL for agencies, and explicitly states a positive test or refusal to test may NOT be used to deny or terminate benefits. This is disclosed in the criminal-justice-disqualifications supplement and PROVENANCE.md as a corrected secondary-source error, not merely a finding. A second live, unconfirmed freshness risk: Minnesota's most recently reported statewide ABAWD waiver has a stated expiration of June 30, 2026 (per two independent secondary sources, not independently confirmed via a primary DHS/USDA source in this pass due to access barriers) — a date already past as of this pack's build date. `packages/snap-rules` stays parked — no MN StatePolicy entry exists yet (a pre-existing authoring gap, not a finding from this pack).
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